Digital zone: Paving the way to mega trade growth


KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Alibaba Group’s founder Jack Ma have launched the much-anticipated Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ), expected to generate trade worth US$65bil (RM286bil) by 2025.

The DTFZ, mooted by the Prime Minister under Budget 2017, aims to create 60,000 jobs by then and double the export growth of small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs).

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